John Tyler Bonner
John Tyler Bonner | |
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Born | New York City, U.S. | May 12, 1920
Died | February 7, 2019 Portland, Oregon, U.S. | (aged 98)
Alma mater | Harvard University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Developmental biology |
Institutions | Princeton University |
John Tyler Bonner (May 12, 1920 – February 7, 2019) was an American biologist who was a professor in the
Career
Bonner was the George M. Moffett Professor Emeritus of Biology at Princeton University. He was trained at Harvard University between 1937 and 1947, aside from a stint in the United States Army Air Forces from 1942 to 1946. He soon joined the faculty of Princeton University, becoming the chairman of the Princeton Biology Department between 1966 and 1977, also in 1983-84 and 1987–88.
He held four honorary doctorates and was a fellow of the
He was a visiting scholar at the
Works
He wrote several books on developmental biology and evolution, many scientific papers, and produced a number of works in biology. He is best known as one of the world's leading experts on
His works include:
- The Cellular Slime Molds
- The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection.[9]
- The Evolution of Culture in Animals
- Life Cycles
- Morphogenesis: an Essay on Development
- On Development: The Biology of Form, Harvard University Press
- Cells and Societies
- First Signals
- The Ideas of Biology
- Sixty Years of Biology
- Size and Cycle
- Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales
- Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science, Harvard University Press.
- Randomness in Evolution. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ 2013, ISBN 978-1-400846429.
His autobiography, Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science was the winner of the 2002 ForeWord Magazine Book of the Year Award.
Support for evolution
Bonner was involved with one of the earliest American efforts to express scientific
See also
- Biology Today, college-level biology textbook, contribution by Bonner
Notes
- ^ "John Tyler Bonner (1920- ) | the Embryo Project Encyclopedia".
- ^ MacPherson, Kitta (21 January 2010). "The 'sultan of slime': Biologist continues to be fascinated by organisms after nearly 70 years of study". Princeton University News.
- ^ "The Embryo Project Encyclopedia". embryo.asu.edu. Archived from the original on 2011-07-13.
- ^ "John Tyler Bonner". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ "J. T. Bonner". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2022-08-23.
- ^ "John Tyler Bonner has died". 2019-02-08.
- ^ Princeton University (2011), Science and technology Story, "The 'sultan of slime': Biologist continues to be fascinated by organisms after nearly 70 years of study". News at Princeton.
- ^ http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/reviews/evolution-of-complexity/ "Review"
- ^ Bales, James D., Forty-Two Years on the Firing Line, Lambert, Shreveport, LA, p.71-72, 1977.
- ^ The Day the Scientists Voted, Bert Thompson, Apologetics Press: Sensible Science, 2001, originally published in Reason & Revelation, 2(3):9-11, March 1982.
References
- Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Science, John Tyler Bonner, Harvard University Press, May 24, 2002, ISBN 0-674-00763-8
- ISBN 0-521-43776-8
- Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales, John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Press, September 13, 2006, ISBN 0-691-12850-2
- On Size and Life (Scientific American Library), Thomas McMahon, John Tyler Bonner, Scientific American Library, May 1985, ISBN 0-7167-5000-7
- Sixty Years of Biology, John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Press, July 8, 1996, ISBN 0-691-02130-9
- Size and Cycle: An Essay on the Structure of Biology, John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Press, January 1966, ISBN 0-691-08033-X
- The Ideas of Biology, John Tyler Bonner, Dover Publications; New Ed edition, November 11, 2002, ISBN 0-486-42419-7
- The Evolution of Culture in Animals, John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Press, May 1, 1983, ISBN 0-691-02373-5
- Evolution and Development (Life Sciences Research Report), John Tyler Bonner, Springer, February 1982, ISBN 0-387-11331-2
- Life Cycles, John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Press; New Ed edition, April 3, 1995, ISBN 0-691-00151-0
- Cells and Societies, John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Press, 1957, ASIN B000GP02EI
- The cellular slime molds (Investigations in the biological sciences), John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Press, 1959, ASIN B0006AVVYS
- The Evolution of Complexity by Means of Natural Selection, John Tyler Bonner, Princeton Univ Press, October 1988, ISBN 0-691-08493-9
- First Signals: The Evolution of Multicellular Development., John Tyler Bonner, Princeton University Press, February 15, 2001, ISBN 0-691-07038-5
- The Ideas of Biology. With Drawings by Ann Cox. , John Tyler Bonner, Methuen (University Paperbacks), 1965, ASIN B000L5PVT4
- Morphogenesis An Essay on Development, John Tyler Bonner, #Princeton University Press, 1952, ASIN B000J0MOMS
- On Development: The Biology of Form (Commonwealth Fund Publications), John Tyler Bonner, Harvard University Press, January 1974, ISBN 0-674-63410-1
- The Scale of Nature: A Panoramic View of the Sciences, John Tyler Bonner (Author), Patricia Collins (Illustrator), Harper & Row, 1969, ASIN B000M1Q7EU
- Researches on cellular slime moulds: Selected papers of J.T. Bonner, John Tyler Bonner, Indian Academy of Sciences, 1991, ISBN 81-85324-10-7
External links
- Official website
- Concordia University Honorary Degree Citation, June 2003, Concordia University Records Management and Archives
- "Microbiologist John Bonner, leading expert on cellular slime molds, dies at 98". Princeton University News. 15 February 2019.
- "John Bonner". Web of Stories (video archive of interviews).